Tuesday, August 8, 2017

HOW TO SURVIVE IN A TOXIC WORLD

Part 2 – The World We
Created

In our never- ending longing to satisfy our desires we have
created a world full of toxins, depleted soils, acid rain, shrinking forests,
“concrete jungles,” electro- magnetic radiation, nano particles of aluminum,
barium and other heavy metals prayed in our skies, pesticides, herbicides,
methane, carbon monoxide, 165 million tons of plastic in our oceans and more in
our landfills and on and on and on. Our
world has become a toxic soup.

We and other living creatures ingest these toxins every
day. Over time they accumulate in living
organisms and eventually kill them.
Toxins are present in nearly everything we touch, see, taste or
breathe. While “authorities” may say
that any item containing toxins do so only in very small amounts, the
accumulation of multiple toxins daily over years puts stress on our immune
system and ultimately causes disease.

What are these toxins which we have overtime seem to have
accepted as part of “progress?” Below I
list some of the most prevalent, but will not entertain descriptions of
each. If interested you can research
these toxins online. The purpose of this
list is to help you understand the overwhelming amount of stress we place on
our planet and ourselves daily:

These toxins accumulate in everything in our
environment: Animals, soils, plants,
water and air. So, we are ingesting many
or all of these chemicals in some form every day. Think about that. Understand that these chemical toxins
accumulate in the tissues of animals including humans over time and over longer
periods of time eventually kill them.

Similar to the global warming debate and inability of our
world to agree on and initiate a solution, cleaning up the chemical toxins on
our planet has met with the same lack of resolve. People tend to shrug and say things like,
“Cleaning any of this will have a huge impact on the economy. This is the trade-off we pay for
progress. Other societies are polluting
worse than us. Science shows that these
small amounts can’t hurt us.” Or, people simply deny any of this since it is so
overwhelming and an inconvenience to think about, let alone act on. Most people simply leave it to science to
find a cure sometime in the future.

Yet, the incidence of cancer marches on. Cancer
continues to be a leading cause of death in both more and less economically
developed countries. Lung and breast
cancer are the most frequently diagnosed and leading causes of cancer death in
men and women. In the U S cancer has
increased 27% in children under 19 since 1975.
In more developed countries prostate cancer is the most frequently
diagnosed cancer in men and lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer among
women. Other frequently diagnosed
cancers worldwide have been stomach, liver, colorectum among males and stomach,
cervix uteri and colorectum among females (source: Wiley Online Library, Global Cancer
Statistics, 2012).

Thus far this discussion has focused on physical
toxins. We haven’t even touched on the
toxic thoughts and ideas generated in our society and the world daily on the
news, TV networks, social media, movies, books and conversation. All this negativity impacts us more than we
think and leads to negative energy which adds to the stresses placed on our
mind and physical bodies.

With the potpourri of toxins in our environment, food, water
and thoughts and more surely added as we “progress” in society, we will not
cure cancer nor many other diseases. We
can at best extend lives, and the conventional medical methods used to do this do
not lend to quality of life. However,
armed with the right information we can strengthen our immune systems in such a
way that they can better be prepared for the daily onslaught of stresses the
life we have created pours on us daily. The last two parts of this series will
focus on how to survive and even thrive in a toxic world.